<![CDATA[WebGL optimization]]>Short update: we've just deployed a patch to our WebGL renderer that drastically optimizes performance when the game window is zoomed in.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/topic/2658/webgl-optimizationRSS for NodeSun, 14 Jun 2026 22:47:32 GMTTue, 26 Mar 2019 13:04:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:27:43 GMT]]>Short update: we've just deployed a patch to our WebGL renderer that drastically optimizes performance when the game window is zoomed in.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13254http://screeps.com/forum/post/13254Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:27:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:19:31 GMT]]>Room visuals are broken (nothing rendered). Update: When disabling room visuals in display options shortly and then enabling them again they do show. Until you switch room then they are gone again.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13255http://screeps.com/forum/post/13255Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:19:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@tun9an0 Thanks, fixed.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13257http://screeps.com/forum/post/13257Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@artch The room visuals shows now -after- I zoom not on first render (when I switch rooms or turn on the visual through console)

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13258http://screeps.com/forum/post/13258Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@tun9an0 It shows after the first tick, it's the same behavior as before. Zooming should not have anything to do with this.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13259http://screeps.com/forum/post/13259Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>The visuals are back, but the underlying screen is extremely dark. Note that (As explained in the now locked help topic.) that I'm not running the acceleration, as it's not available on the options dialog. I realize this makes me an edge case, and was fine with the less than stellar render performance. 0_1553610742302_e63aab16-a37f-448e-863d-75bf668e7870-image.png

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13261http://screeps.com/forum/post/13261Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@smokeman This is interesting, I cannot reproduce it regardless of display and system settings. What's your GPU, OS and browser version?

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13262http://screeps.com/forum/post/13262Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>AMD Radeon X1950 Windows 7

Not using a browser, using the Steam Client. If I WAS using the browser, it would be Firefox. I know this is an ancient video card... and I assume that's issue. The "Use acceleration" checkbox is not available, as well as the Lighting and Swamp Texture checkboxes.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13263http://screeps.com/forum/post/13263Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@smokeman I still can't reproduce this even with hardware acceleration disabled (in both game display settings and globally in the system). One thing that you can do to help debug this, is to use Developer Tools in Chrome/Firefox and track what particular overlay element is causing this (by selecting each element on top of the room view and deleting them one by one).

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13264http://screeps.com/forum/post/13264Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>I switched from the Steam Client to the browser. That works just fine. Whatever overlay that is causing this works in the Firefox browser, but not the Steam Client.

If there are dev tools in the Steam Client, I don't know where they are (Assuming the thing even runs on a platform that supports that.)

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13265http://screeps.com/forum/post/13265Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>There is one thing that is not like the others... the Exit Tiles. They look quite different. I don't generally use the browser for screeps, but I assume they are supposed to look like they did before. 0_1553613965499_a4b96e52-729b-47f6-87f3-4aa098b88936-image.png

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13266http://screeps.com/forum/post/13266Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@artch Yes, sorry, you are right. It was taking 2 ticks for the render to show up, drew conclusion too quickly. It's very responsive here, nice!

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13267http://screeps.com/forum/post/13267Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>If I run the Steam Client, then reduce the window size and zoom in all the way, the screen will show as properly bright on the right hand side.

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]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13268http://screeps.com/forum/post/13268Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@smokeman You can access Developer Tools in Steam client too. Here is how:

  1. Download and unzip this archive.
  2. Copy package.nw file from your Steam installation (SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Screeps) to the unpacked folder.
  3. Launch nw.exe and press F12 to open dev tools.
]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13269http://screeps.com/forum/post/13269Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@smokeman The exit tile problem is older than this update and is only present without hardware accaleration. (Firefox here too)

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13270http://screeps.com/forum/post/13270Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>I can repeatably get it to turn on and off by displaying a single GUI element: The Power Creep power cooldowns. With the cooldowns off screen: 0_1553706406726_pc_off.PNG

Then if I scroll the right pane up to expose the Power Creep's cooldown display: 0_1553706482657_pc_on.PNG

It will do it every time.

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13291http://screeps.com/forum/post/13291Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>Am I missing something or has the SVG renderer been removed?

I often use the simulation and it runs a lot slower with the WebGL one (about factor 6).

]]>http://screeps.com/forum/post/13356http://screeps.com/forum/post/13356Invalid Date<![CDATA[Reply to WebGL optimization on Invalid Date]]>@duckymirror Looks like I've been missing something... Turning off hardware accelaration gets legacy renderer speed back.

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